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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use DeleteClient function with argument alias (instead of the cryptical CAM-id)

Issue while deleting TM1-clients using the DeleteClient command in TI-process for instances that are using Integrated Security Mode=5 and CAMid's. The process ends with an error for each user that was deleted. Afterwards, using the Security>Cli...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add bitmap indexes

Add persisted bitmap indexes similar to Oracle. Same use case as for Oracle.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Purge Application Text Records from Deleted Views and Widgets

When you create a view or widget in the TFUI, each instance becomes an Application Text record. Once deleted, the Application Text record stays and becomes an orphan. As development continues, there should be a process (or script) to purge all orp...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Create a real IDS driver for Tableau

Hi, my customer is a long haul IDS customer who loves it. A few years ago, his team fell in love with Tableau, which resolved many business cases for his company. Unfortunately, after getting more and more demanding with Tableau functionality, and...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Compress statement text before insert in Dynamic Statement Cache

GGDB212006 'Compress' statement text of dynamic SQL statements by removing all unnecessary blanks before inserting in DSC. As a consequence statements have to be 'compressed' before comparing it to statements in DSC
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A better overview of users and groups in PAW

Regarding “corporate usability” there should be a better overview of users and groups in PAW. Currently it is hard to keep track if you have hundreds of users. E.g., there is no way to find users without groups.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration